for all I care, that planet could be dead as the moon. With such surface temperatures, Musk isn't going for a trip to Venus to mine the daimonds raining down on the surface.
Our solar system's ice giants are the ones with diamond rain, not Venus. That said, Venus surely is a very minerologically interesting planet. There's even semiconductor frosts and/or snows, possibly of more than one compound or form. Early on tellurium was considered a major candidate, but now galena is considered probable. The surface is sort of like a refinery, baking / eroding out compounds that on most rocky bodies normally stay well bound, and then precipitating them out elsewhere. It also shows sig
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There have been a number of announcements about this chemical or that being evidence for life in Venus's clouds, though I don't find the evidence compelling. Our understanding of Venus's atmospheric chemistry is good in broad terms but poor in specifics (we don't even know what the "mystery UV absorber" is on Venus! Possibly iron chloride, or, perhaps more probably based on recent research, various polysulfides). We haven't studied it anywhere nearly as well as, say, Mars, and it's extremely complex (and st
for all I care, that planet could be dead as the moon.
With such surface temperatures, Musk isn't going for a trip to Venus to mine the daimonds raining down on the surface.
Our solar system's ice giants are the ones with diamond rain, not Venus. That said, Venus surely is a very minerologically interesting planet. There's even semiconductor frosts and/or snows, possibly of more than one compound or form. Early on tellurium was considered a major candidate, but now galena is considered probable. The surface is sort of like a refinery, baking / eroding out compounds that on most rocky bodies normally stay well bound, and then precipitating them out elsewhere. It also shows sig
Every so often on /. someone gives a response that significantly adds to my knowledge. As I don't have mod points today, this reply will have to serve instead.
There have been a number of announcements about this chemical or that being evidence for life in Venus's clouds, though I don't find the evidence compelling. Our understanding of Venus's atmospheric chemistry is good in broad terms but poor in specifics (we don't even know what the "mystery UV absorber" is on Venus! Possibly iron chloride, or, perhaps more probably based on recent research, various polysulfides). We haven't studied it anywhere nearly as well as, say, Mars, and it's extremely complex (and st